Business demography, European standard; legal form, SIC2008

Business demography, European standard; legal form, SIC2008

SIC 2008 Legal forms Periods Enterprises Total (aantal) Enterprises Births (aantal) Enterprises Deaths (aantal) Enterprise population Persons employed (aantal) Enterprise population Employees (aantal) Newly born enterprises Persons employed (aantal) Newly born enterprises Employees (aantal) Non-surviving enterprises Persons employed (aantal) Non-surviving enterprises Employees (aantal)
271 Manufacture of electric motors etc. Total legal forms all nationalities 2020* . . . . . . . . .
271 Manufacture of electric motors etc. Sole proprietorship 2020* . . . . . . . . .
271 Manufacture of electric motors etc. Limited liability enterprises 2020* . . . . . . . . .
271 Manufacture of electric motors etc. Partnership, etc. 2020* . . . . . . . . .
291 Manufacture of motor vehicles Total legal forms all nationalities 2020* . . . . . . . . .
291 Manufacture of motor vehicles Sole proprietorship 2020* . . . . . . . . .
291 Manufacture of motor vehicles Limited liability enterprises 2020* . . . . . . . . .
291 Manufacture of motor vehicles Partnership, etc. 2020* . . . . . . . . .
304 Manufacture of fighting vehicles Total legal forms all nationalities 2020* . . . . . . . . .
304 Manufacture of fighting vehicles Sole proprietorship 2020* . . . . . . . . .
304 Manufacture of fighting vehicles Limited liability enterprises 2020* . . . . . . . . .
304 Manufacture of fighting vehicles Partnership, etc. 2020* . . . . . . . . .
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Total legal forms all nationalities 2020* 37,318 2,712 1,957 146,168 108,956 1,704 339 979 82
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Sole proprietorship 2020* 23,627 2,076 1,362 29,590 8,173 1,054 24 672 10
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Limited liability enterprises 2020* 7,698 324 321 98,191 93,210 310 281 45 36
45 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Partnership, etc. 2020* 5,993 312 274 18,387 7,573 340 33 263 35
451 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Total legal forms all nationalities 2020* . . . . . . . . .
451 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Sole proprietorship 2020* . . . . . . . . .
451 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Limited liability enterprises 2020* . . . . . . . . .
451 Sale and repair of motor vehicles Partnership, etc. 2020* . . . . . . . . .
452 Specialised repair of motor vehicles Total legal forms all nationalities 2020* . . . . . . . . .
452 Specialised repair of motor vehicles Sole proprietorship 2020* . . . . . . . . .
452 Specialised repair of motor vehicles Limited liability enterprises 2020* . . . . . . . . .
452 Specialised repair of motor vehicles Partnership, etc. 2020* . . . . . . . . .
453 Sale of motor vehicle parts. Total legal forms all nationalities 2020* . . . . . . . . .
453 Sale of motor vehicle parts. Sole proprietorship 2020* . . . . . . . . .
453 Sale of motor vehicle parts. Limited liability enterprises 2020* . . . . . . . . .
453 Sale of motor vehicle parts. Partnership, etc. 2020* . . . . . . . . .
454 Sale and repair of motorcycles Total legal forms all nationalities 2020* . . . . . . . . .
454 Sale and repair of motorcycles Sole proprietorship 2020* . . . . . . . . .
454 Sale and repair of motorcycles Limited liability enterprises 2020* . . . . . . . . .
454 Sale and repair of motorcycles Partnership, etc. 2020* . . . . . . . . .
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Total legal forms all nationalities 2020* 85,717 5,308 6,254 543,352 475,995 3,105 1,246 2,832 530
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Sole proprietorship 2020* 34,471 2,335 3,332 37,143 6,786 1,135 24 1,681 38
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Limited liability enterprises 2020* 38,881 2,283 2,000 468,904 450,332 1,354 1,164 468 424
46 Wholesale trade (no motor vehicles) Partnership, etc. 2020* 12,365 690 922 37,305 18,877 615 58 683 68
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Total legal forms all nationalities 2020* 154,983 26,999 14,174 892,243 760,212 12,121 2,126 7,409 1,313
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Sole proprietorship 2020* 102,593 20,824 10,457 113,711 44,591 7,211 454 4,348 232
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Limited liability enterprises 2020* 17,179 1,278 1,035 631,026 621,109 1,334 1,222 760 730
47 Retail trade (not in motor vehicles) Partnership, etc. 2020* 35,211 4,897 2,682 147,506 94,512 3,575 451 2,302 351
771 Renting of motor vehicles Total legal forms all nationalities 2020* 1,256 148 112 7,939 7,101 . 10 46 .
771 Renting of motor vehicles Sole proprietorship 2020* 452 59 47 407 . . 0 . 0
771 Renting of motor vehicles Limited liability enterprises 2020* 600 53 46 . 6,930 . 10 . .
771 Renting of motor vehicles Partnership, etc. 2020* 204 36 19 . . . 0 14 0
Source: CBS.
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This table includes information on business demography according to the European standard. Figures in this table are also submitted in this form to Eurostat. Information concerns the population of active enterprises, enterprise births and deaths, and the 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 year survivors after birth, broken down by size class based on number of employees and by the National Classification of Economic Activity 2008 (NCEA 2008, based on NACE Rev 2.0). Data also includes persons employed and employees in active enterprises, births and deaths, as well as persons employed for surviving births at the start and end of the survival period.

Data available from: 2010

Status of the figures:
The figures in this table from 2010 to 2018 are final. Figures about 2019 and 2020 are provisional.

Changes as of 29 November 2022:
The provisional figures of 2020 are added.

When will new figures be released?
Figures on a new reporting year (T – 2) will be published in July of the current year T.

Description topics

Enterprises
Total
Enterprise:
The actual transactor in the production process characterised by independence in deciding on that process and in offering its products to third parties.

It follows from this definition, and in particular from the element of independence, that an enterprise can comprise more than one establishment, but also more than one legal unit. (Legal units include both natural and legal persons.) This is the case when the separate establishments or legal units do not operate independently. Conversely, it is possible to distinguish between different parts within a legal unit that operate independently in terms of production. These then constitute as many enterprises as defined. The latter is especially the case for larger groups with diverse activities.
When a unit thus defined extends over several countries, the Dutch part will be considered as a whole company for the sake of national statistics.

In official CBS terminology the enterprise as defined here is called the enterprise unit (BE), so that there is no confusion with the term enterprise used in common parlance, which is not very precise in this respect.

The statistical unit enterprise is an operationalisation of the kind-of-activity unit, as defined by Eurostat. This definition combines two requirements that may conflict: contributing to one activity versus corresponding to one or more operational units. The Netherlands gives priority to the second requirement when operationalising to the statistical enterprise unit.
Births
An enterprise birth is the creation of a new enterprise.

This means that economic criteria for an enterprise must be met: there must be information on employment or turnover of the enterprise. Furthermore, it is important that the enterprise is actually new. The continuation of one or more existing enterprises is therefore not an enterprise birth.

There is no enterprise birth in the case of
- enterprises that are created as a result of a merger, division or demerger;
- takeover or privatisation of part of a company;
- change of name;
- change of legal form;
- change of ownership;
- gradual change of activity;
- relocation;
- reactivation.
Deaths
An enterprise death is the termination of an existing enterprise.

This means that there is no question of a significant part of the activities being continued by another enterprise. An enterprise death only occurs when the enterprise (with the associated employment) no longer belongs to the enterprise population. The best-known example of this is bankruptcy.

There is no enterprise death in the case of:
- enterprises that disappear as a result of a merger, division or demerger;
- takeover or privatisation of part of an enterprise;
- change of name;
- change of legal form;
- change of owner;
- gradual change of activity
- relocation;
- reactivation.
Enterprise population
Persons employed
The number of persons employed consists of:
- employees and directors who are on the payroll;
- employees who are on the payroll of another enterprise or institution, but work in the enterprise's own place of business and as such are in fact part of the workforce (agency staff);
- employed proprietors, partners, associates and cooperating family members;
- agency staff. Loaned personnel (employees on the payroll, but working for another enterprise or institution) are not included under persons employed.
Employees
The number of employees is determined on the basis of the employees on the payroll excluding director-major shareholders. The number of employees per company is calculated from wage tax data from the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.
Newly born enterprises
Persons employed
The number of persons employed consists of:
- employees and directors who are on the payroll;
- employees who are on the payroll of another enterprise or institution, but work in the enterprise's own place of business and as such are in fact part of the workforce (agency staff);
- employed proprietors, partners, associates and cooperating family members;
- agency staff. Loaned personnel (employees on the payroll, but working for another enterprise or institution) are not included under persons employed.
Employees
The number of employees is determined on the basis of the employees on the payroll excluding director-major shareholders. The number of employees per company is calculated from wage tax data from the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.
Non-surviving enterprises
Persons employed
The number of persons employed consists of:
- employees and directors who are on the payroll;
- employees who are on the payroll of another enterprise or institution, but work in the enterprise's own place of business and as such are in fact part of the workforce (agency staff);
- employed proprietors, partners, associates and cooperating family members;
- agency staff. Loaned personnel (employees on the payroll, but working for another enterprise or institution) are not included under persons employed.
Employees
The number of employees is determined on the basis of the employees on the payroll excluding director-major shareholders. The number of employees per company is calculated from wage tax data from the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration.